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Thursday, December 14, 2017

Our Man in Europe/dave delacroix/ "BACK IN PALERMO!"


Our Man in Europe/dae delacroix/ "Back in Palermo."


(dedicato: Antonio Segreto)


Pioggi arrivi, il Nipote SCAMPA: bella -bambini? When it RAINS the kids go hunting Escargot?When U die they KNOW  to pick wild flowers for your grave?And Cavalieri Rustica, in all their finery, come and go? That Siciliano thing? That love?
Estate arrive; long Summers days; hot nights upon the beaches and shores? Sirocco kiss with its leaden veil? Pioggia arrive; pioggia arrivee:?
How can I sing my IL Siciliano Canzone; how can I make a Change? My heart is in Agrigento, my Love, in Syracusa, my Soul on Mount Etna! Cross-ways, CROSS-ROADS, all roads lead to Roma!?
Back in Palermo, Il Bambini (City Kids!) go hunting? The Bugs on the rocks; sell them, like LIRE,  for peanuts, like that kiss  from the Fisherman, that Eternity: and when he is no more: herald Life's divinity? It takes a Stranger....in a strange Land....to make that Land a Friend?...Meanwhile? Back in Palermo: the beat goes ON!....yet still, them damned noisy, raunchy Bambini will GO, without prompting, and pick wild flowers for my grave?


c2017/davedelacroix/Sciacca, Sicily...:)


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